Fly-swatter



G. A. MOORE. FLY SWATTER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 15, 1920.

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Patented Oct. 5,1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FLY-SWATTER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of llledford, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fly-Swatters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

The object of this invention is the construction of an improved device for killing flies, of the type known as a fly swatter, which device shall be inexpensive to manufacture, durable, eflective and incapable of injuring polished surfaces upon which it may be struck.

To render the handle inexpensive, I construct it of wire, and to make it effective and non-injurious to furniture, the swatting portion is composed of felt, fabric, sheet rubber, or other yielding material, supplying it with a resiliently flexible frame by which it is connected with the handle.

The drawing forming part of this specification is a face View of the device.

The handle and frame of the device are composed of a single length of wire, the wire being bent Over upon itself at substan tially its midlength to compose the handle portion, the two sections 1 and 2 being suitably spaced, and twisted together at 3. Immediately beyond this juncture 3, the portion 2 is bent into a semicircle 4c, and the portion 1 is continued as a diameter of the semicircle l and is then curved over away from the semicircle at to form a second semicircle 6 concentric with the other and of equal diameter. The portions of the wire beyond the part 3 I prefer to designate as the frame for the support of the swatting portion.

This swatting member 7 I prefer to compose of comparatively thin felt out in a circular form, although it may be of any suit able fabric, sheet rubber or other yielding and non-metallic material. This felt is preferably circular and of a larger diameter than the circle 4, 6, and is provided with a circular row of holes 9 disposed in pairs,

Specification of Letters .Patent.

Application filed March 15, 1920.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

Serial No. 366,051.

the two holes in each pair being nearer together than are the pairs from each other.

In applying the swatting sheet to the frame, the wire semi-circles 4:, 6 are threaded through the holes 9 in the manner shown in the drawing, so that the wire chord 5 and the longer lengths of wire between the pairs of holes 9 are all above the top surface of the member 7. The space between the two holes of a pair being much nearer together than the spaces between the pairs, the wire-portions beneath these short spaces will press upward the felt above to cause said wire-portions to be sufficiently above the under surface of the felt member 7 to insure they cannot strike the surface of any hard object upon which the swatter descends.

Through the greater portion of the felt member 7 are punched numerous holes 10 for the purpose of permitting the free passage of air, in order to reduce the current of air produced by the swatter as it swiftly descends upon a fly.

Vhat I claim is:

l. A fly swatter comprising a sheet of fibrous material having perforations through certain parts thereof, a handle, and connection between said. sheet and handle consisting of a length of wire threaded back and forth through said perforations, the wire being of sufficient rigidity to press away from it each portion of the sheet lying between the two perforations penetrated by the corresponding portion of the wlre.

2. A fly swatter comprising a sheet of fibrous material having two concentric but oppositely disposed semi-circles of perforations, a handle, and connection between the handle and sheet consisting of two concentric but oppositely disposed semicircular wire portions, the same being disposed whereby a rotation of the sheet can cause both said wire portions to be threaded through said perforations.

3. A fly swatter comprising a circular sheet of fibrous material having two concentric but oppositely disposed semi-circles of perforations, said semi-circles being unequal in radius, and a length of Wire bent posed, and the sheet rotated thereon, the over upon itself near its mid-length to comends of the Wire portions can be threaded 10 pose a handle, the terminal portions of the through said perforations.

Wire being curved to formtwo oppositely In testimony that I claim the foregoing disposed unequal semi-circles equal in radii invention, I have hereunto set my hand this to those of the semi-circles of periorations, 11th dayof March, 1920. i

said parts being so disposed'that when the centers of the said semicircles are super- GEORGE A. MOORE. 

